And can he see anything potentially useful to what he wants to do if he looks around? Such as some people he can talk to while awkwardly covering his junk?

Nnno, no people nearby.

But he can spot a highway in the distance—his vision is actually much better than he remembers.

Huh. He doesn't remember needing glasses or anything?

He goes highway-wards!

He will reach the highway without further incident.

It is deserted.

… Ugh, no chance to hitchhike then.

Which ways is the town or whatever? If he can see a sign for it, or work it out from other things (like seeing it), or remember where it is, he goes that way.

He can definitely remember both the town he came from and the direction back to his own.

He thinks he'll go back to the town he came from, if it's closer, and see if he can get some clothes and a ride home from there.

He spent so long running last night his hometown is actually closer.

… How much closer? If he's like slightly over halfway he'd rather go back to the other town and get clothes there so nobody he knows sees him strolling around town naked.

He's like sixty percent of the way?

Hm.

He's probably– um. He's probably able to get back home without anyone seeing him if he takes a bit of a back route, especially since it's dark, so…

Okay, back to his hometown.

He is: still really fast.

Oh.

He'd sort of– forgotten but not forgotten about that.

… Is there any clear reason for him being super fast?

Maybe the same reason why his visual acuity is so ridiculously good. Or his hearing. Or his sense of smell. Or his sense of touch. Or the fact that he's not feeling cold in spite of being naked in the desert at night. Or his memory. His memory's really good. He remembers everything from the previous day: suddenly passing out at school, waking up in a morgue, licking the table, and the walls, and the door, and the corpse, and drinking the corpse's blood, and also that nice doctor's in the hospital's parking garage, and...

… He's just going to stop moving now and return to that desert.

The desert continues to fail to react to him.

How bad is it if he buries his head literally into the sand.

It's... much easier than he might expect—he is apparently also super strong.

Can he bury underground. Does he want to bury underground. Is this a thing he wants and can do.

Nope. He just wants to leave his head buried into the sand – does he even need air, he doesn't know, what the fuck – and hopefully shut down.

Is that a thing he can do or does he have to suffer.

Well there doesn't seem to be, like, an obvious setting he can turn on that makes him able to shut down. The sand is there, though.

That is unfortunate.

The sand continues not to care.

He didn't expect it to.

He doesn't know what he used to expect or what he should expect or why he should expect it or whether he should be allowed to expect.

But he did not in fact expect, at this moment, the sand to care.

Look at it, living up to his expectations, or lack thereof.

How long can he go for without thinking? Can he focus on the concept of 'blank' for a while? That sounds like a thing he can and should probably or maybe probably not do.

He does it anyway.